[Tfug] [OT] Solution: A good brainteaser to flex your sad and flabby hacker brain muscles.

[Christopher Robbins]

On 4/11/07, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Solution #2: (the clever way)
> >
> > Push the box back across the table to the Unix administrator, and ask
> > him to open it for you. The rules state that the person who opens the
> > lid is not allowed to touch the switches ever again. If someone else
> > opens the lid, then you can manipulate the switches freely.
>
> I am sorry, but that contradicts your original email:
>
> "If you open the lid, you're not allowed to touch any of the switches
> ever again."
>
> He would have to be willing to flip the switches for you as well.


No no, that's only if YOU open the lid.  Nothing remarked about anyone else
opening the lid.  Thus, this
solution does work - you aren't disqualified from flipping the switches
because the other schmuck opened
the lid for you.

   -Chris

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Chris Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net